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Letter: Life taking hold takes how long?

Published 3 August 2016

From Eric Kvaalen

In your article on alien life under ice, you state: “given ample heat from the planet's interior, water can remain liquid under the ice long enough for life to take hold” (18 June, p 16). We have no idea whether there would be enough time, because we don't really know how life can start.

Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Issue no. 3085 published 6 August 2016

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